Sono arrivata a Bolgheri!
2009 Alright so I’m finally here in the Bolgheri area of Tuscany. It wasn’t as bad a flight this time, after you’ve done it once, you get the gist of how to time yourself to be as little jetlagged as...
View ArticleCome verde sono tutte le cose qua!
2009 One of the first things I have noticed about this part of Tuscany that I am in after travelling around with Greta quite a bit in the car to the beach and around the place, is that is is really...
View ArticleI uomini!
2009 So I have been at work a few times now and nutted the place out. It is located in Donoratico – a nice 15minute bike ride from our place (I’m referring to a pushbike Nonna, not a motorbike)! We...
View ArticleGeneral happenings
2009 Ahh so we had our first drama in the winery yesterday and fortunately it was not my doing. What a surprise. Greta and I rocked up to the winery at 9am and were about to begin the routine Babo...
View ArticleLast picking day
2009 Today we picked the last of the fruit that will eventually go into Giorgio’s wines at a vineyard belonging to some ancient lawyer dude from Milan called Meda, or as I like to called him, Merda We...
View ArticleCinghiale!
2009 Sai cos’abbiamo mangiato sta sera alla casa di Alessio? Cinghiale! Or for those of you who don’t know what I’m on about…’we ate wild boar!’ Alessio’s mum cooked it perfectly using olive oil,...
View ArticleFish – Pesce
2009 The good thing about living in a coastal town is that they like to eat fish frequently. I remember mum telling me you can never say no to fish as it’s so good for you, so I take her advice and...
View ArticleVintage Festa!
2009 Ieri sera e’ passata la festa della vendemmia! We ate at Federico’s pizza restaurant and we were about 18-20 of us all up. We had a lovely meal set up for us with seafood salad, prosciutto crudo...
View ArticleOlives Olives Olives
2009 The olives are being harvested for oil. How does one know? You walk past a tree and there’s a carpet surrounding it and you hear a compressor working it’s little butt off in the distance whilst a...
View ArticleChitty chitty bang bang!
2009 6:15am BOOM!…….BOOM BOOM BOOM!!! 6:17am BOOM BOOM….BOOM BOOM BOOM!!! … 6:30am Krystina wakes up and heads outside to begin her walk 6:32am and on the road… 6:33am BOOM BOOM BOOM!!! The hunters are...
View ArticleIl giorno perfetto!
2009 Whoever said Friday the 13th was an unlucky day?!?! Today being Friday I would normally be dressed in my shabby manly man work clothes but instead I got to put on a dark blue dress I bought in...
View ArticleTi disturbo?
2009 This is one of those things that I wasn’t sure if I should write about, purely for the fact that my mother reads this blog…or is at least my most avid reader (perhaps my only reader)…and to whom...
View ArticleI sogni dei ragazzi di Bolgheri
2009 Giorgio, Francesca and Greta have given me a new notebook as a christmas gift. Totally lovely of them! I just so happened to finish my other diary too so it is perfect timing. Plus the fact that...
View ArticleArriverderci Bolgheri
2010 Casa dolce casa (home sweet home) 20th Gennaio 2010 Having spent the best part of January travelling around south-western Europe it was nice to come back to my old home Bolgheri in Tuscany for...
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